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Speechwriting: Corporate, Weddings, Retirement

4/12/09

He's Alive - Don and Wendy Francisco, Live - video

He's Alive - Don and Wendy Francisco, Live - videoDon explains briefly how he wrote this classic. Guitar with full choir.

Amen.

The gates and doors were barred and all the windows fastened downI spent the night in sleeplessness and rose at every soundhalf in hopeless sorrow and half in fear the daywould find the soldiers breaking through to drag us all away

and just before the sunrise I heard something at the wallthe gate began to rattle and a voice began to callI hurried to the window and looked down into the streetexpecting swords and torches and the sound of soldiers feet

there was no one there but marry so I went down to let her inJohn stood there beside me as she told us where she'd beenshe said they've moved him in the night and none of us knows wherethe stone's been rolled away and now his body isn't there

we both ran t'ward the garden and then John ran on aheadwe found the stone and the empty tomb just the way that marry saidbut the winding sheet they wrapped him in was just an empty shelland how or where they'd taken him was more than I could tell

something strange had happened there just what I didn't knowJohn believed a miracle but I just turned to gocircumstance and speculation didn't lift me very high'cause I’d seen them crucify him, and then I saw him die

back inside the house again the guilt and anguish cameeverything I’d promised him just added to my shamewhen at last it came to choices I denied I knew his nameand even if He was alive, it wouldn't be the same

suddenly the air was filled with a strange and sweet perfumelight that came from everywhere drove shadows from the roomJesus stood before me with his arms held open wideand I fell down on my knees and I just clung to him and cried

He raised me to my feet and as I looked into his eyeslove was shining out from them like sunlight from the skiesguilt and my confusion disappeared in sweet releaseand every fear I’d every had just melted into peace